Kruno Jošt

Free Traveling Radio was hosted by Clubture Forum in Autonomous Cultural Center Medika in Zagreb. During four days of forum and festival activities we have had almost 24/7 radio going on with open microphone, DJ sets, recorded talks etc. Read more and listen to podcasts here>>

Social Technologies Summit Futuresonic is international festival trying to answer questions of tomorrow: how will we interact with each other and nature around us in future. Futuresonic festivals fringe at Arcspace in St. Wilfrid’s Enterprise Center answered the question trough its grassroots movement created events that hosted, among many other events, CultureRobot installation.

Arcspace is situated in ex-church building that is turned into St. Wilfrid’s Enterprise Center  since 1992  – a unique architecture where insides of the church are transformed into enterprise center for ethical businesses and NGOs. St. Wilfrid’s Enterprise Center is situated in Hulme, an  area near to Manchester city center. Hulme was mapped not only as a territory but also as a specific part of the city with vibrant activist community and a history. ArcSpace was visited by people of different age and heterogeneous needs and activities, exchanging their beliefs, stories and producing new possibilities for exchange and collaboration in spirit of free culture.

Culture Robot installation was created by help of the community from the start to the end. Materials were collected or borrowed instead of purchased or rented, help with programing for interactive part of the installation was done by  friends and volunteers, and installation debuted at Saturday on the open, community day, that hosted events inside and outside the Center.CR 3.0 installation created a new relationship between local community and this art piece. More than ever people were active in collecting material, discussing and managing to interconnect installation with other events during Futuresonic fringe.

CR 3.0 mapped more than just Hulme, it mapped its people, relationships, how they feel about city development, architecture, organizations working with art and culture in Manchester and how financing is a part of the culture and where does it lead culture to, it showed community strength and grassroots development.  During the open days, all ethnic, age, academic and other walks of life were united and exchanged opinions, questions and ideas.

Guerrilla busking was happening in the city throughout the day, graffite artists were spraying on the vans and trailers (an identifiable vehicle in the Redbrick’s area of the Hulme – where travelers and free people of all sorts live). People from recycled biodiesel group, local bcycle repair man, drummers, community artists, foreign guests, local volunteers and experts were united to make a truly social event, creating bridges between cultures, people and technology in universal feeling of unity.

Read “Report From FutureSonic 2009” By Jonah Brucker on Rhizome.org

Photolog on Futuresonic Fringe at Arcspace >>

Wonderful Industry

A compilation of two last sessions recorded at the “Silence Reservoir” venue in Zagreb, Croatia by Impromondays crew:
Dragan Pajic – Pajo: noises, prepared piano, vocals, el. guitar and effects;
Anna Ghallo: poetry, vocals with effects;
Kruno Jošt: el.guitar with effects, laptop, prepared instruments.

Sometimes scary, sometimes ironic, sometimes psychedelic but always elegant and educational relationship of inner world and outside technology specified in rhymes such as: ” I want to have sexual relationship with Bill Gatess” or using actively a passive digital recorder made mistakes and sel-edited cuts.
Recorded summer 2008.
Time: 30 min.
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LNT has had 6 performances since November 2008 until end of February 2009. It is project that was born under exchange of open culture between Croatia and Brazil and established by Ricardo Palmieri, by making PD patch under name od ‘I Love Noise’. Since than history is in making. LNT performed in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Sao Paulo and Sao Caetano. Audio visual performance are bricolage of noise, circuit bending and prepared instruments sounds, improvisation, collaboration with local artists and spoken word on Tupi lenguages, a similarity of languages most of west coast South American natives are speaking.

For your viewing pleasure performance recorded at Sao Caetano in two parts.

Part one:

Part two

CR installation 2.0 at SESC Sao Jose dos Campos in Brazil followed 1.0 that was installed at HAIP festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia. CultureRobot is interactive installation that rises awareness about maps, open spaces and borders. It invites visitors/users/participators to rearrange, open or close borders and thus interact with the map inhabitants – CultureRobot (simple robots powered by batteries, moving randomly on the map) allowing them to consume more or less of different cultural aspects. CR is interactive installation made to raise awareness of social and political sphere that is affecting autonomous cultural sphere, synergies and correspondences in geo-techno-socio-political topology.

CR 1.0

CR 2.0

Check extensive blogging with video, photolog and process description on CR  here>>

34.in.C++

Improvised noise session of 3 numbers ranging from whitenoise to travel sound to freeimpro piano.
Done in FOSS with PD, arduino as controller, Jack Rack and Qsynth.

Musicians: GentleJunk and VJPalm.

Recorded summer 2008 in Krizevci, Croatia

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No. of the piece 6517 is work under name ‘RECording’ applied to internet competition and online festival 2008culturas.com. ‘RECording’ is a video where one can see tourists recording Dubrovnik.

If This is the Electronic Frontier, Who Are the Indians? (Richard Barbrook)
Ricardo Palmieri editing of material filmed during residency at Krizevci. Arduino with light sensors, PD and Ubuntu Studio.

MMKamp ’08 (at Art Workshop Lazareti in Dubrovnik) joined artists and scientists in experimental and virtual sound production.
GentleJunk and Vj Palm had a session together on Saturday 05th using underwater images and sounds collected from beach together with sound processed using recycled technologies and open source software.

GentleJunk is sharing a virtual stage with Julie Rousse on upcoming noplacard festival, Sunday 17th February, 2 o’clock in the morning.

noplacard is a mix in between the (((NOMUSIC))) festival and the placard headphone festival that lasts for 24 hours in Paris at la menagerie de verre during the Economie0 event.

(((NOMUSIC))) started on June 2001, according to the principle that a diffusion site on Internet should correspond to the representation of the singular performances of a new generation of artists, musicians, performers and other actors of the electronic scene. The creation of this open diffusion site proved to be necessary because of today’s difficulty to perform disembodied concerts of electronic music on stage, in a classical frontal (actor/audience) representation space. Nowadays, these emerging new multimedia performances allow everybody to approach music in a more singular way, with a different listening practice and on a more sharing scene.

Impromondays crew performing on No Jazz festival in Zagreb, ITD, Student Center 05.11.2007.
Vid Jeraj – tenor sax
D.P.Pajic – El.guitar, fx., percussions;
Kruno Jost – El.guitar, fx., laptop;
Anna Ghallo – vocal;
Višeslav Labosh – turntable, sound generator, effects.
Released on GentleJunk NetLabel November 2007.
Running time: 42 min

Photolog >>

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Experimental Electronic interventions festival this year DIY style – http://www.uke.hr/EEII/

Following audio file has been recorded on September 24th evening (2007) in GJ studio as a part of research in CELLULAR AUTOMATA MUSIC that was developed in GentleJunk co. labaratory.

Main occupations in this generated piece is correspondence of rhythmic instruments and time. It is work of 4 slightly different CA scripts that are directed in improvised way. A relationship is developed by connecting seemingly indefinite loops and revolving them back to their own start point.

NOSE.WALL – SUITYOURSELF
True and dark, orgasmic reference to cosmopolitanism with guest star Omar Sharif and his British intrinsically motivated companions.

This album has no relevance whatsoever in NOISE.WALL production and if you intent to listen to it you are obliged to process it in your own way, reuse-it, destroy it, compile it, reverse it, remix it, play it in reverse, sample it, sign it with your name and sell it to your own financial advantage…

Recorded & edited @ GentleJunk co. homestudio
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GentleJunk co.
Albume a Day – CA1
In Album a Day manner minimal constructions of cellular automata generated sounds and compositions. CA in python software application written by Lesh, other FOSS audio applications done in Ubuntu studio Linux distribution.
CA is digital game of life, as this is game of sound.
Recorded and published in GentleJunk NetLabel home-studio on 30/08/2007.
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A cellular automaton is a group of cells that evolves only by nearest neighbor interaction. They are thought to be able to represent the evolution of living organisms and minerals. It is usually assumed that every cell in the universe starts in the same state, except for a finite number of cells in other states, often called a configuration. More generally, it is sometimes assumed that the universe starts out covered with a periodic pattern, and only a finite number of cells violate that pattern. The latter assumption is common in one-dimensional cellular automata.

Croatian and Brasilian representatives that are developing the initiative for permanent exchange in free and open culture have met in Karlovac at the festival ‘Nepokoreni Grad’ on 24th of August 2007.

Representatives have exchanged presents of good will – pirated copies CDs and DVDs with local content. This exchange of pirated media is an attempt (from Greek peirān: to attempt) to establish permanent exchange in media, knowledge and creativity.

Party with international guests was held afterwards where death of Evil Tony was celebrated. You can read more about this event on MMKamp blog.

KARMAKUMULATOR Live @ Čakovec
Tons of fragments are making this experimental noise and ambient a chill for listeners that enjoy night hours with introspective traveling and dark music.
Trivia: this is a live performance recording where audience thought that band was setting up the instruments, realizing in the end of almost 50 minutes playing that it is actual concert.
Pavle Valerjev – [mandelbrot set] – guitar, ef., postproduction
Igor Mihovilovic – computer, radio, samples, production
Recorded 30/7/2004. @ Cakovecko ljeto za mlade/Perivoj Zrinski/Cakovec/Croatia
Published @ GentleJunk co. NetLabel August 2007
DOWNLOAD OR LISTEN @ Archive.org

‘Deconstruction is in fact much closer to the original meaning of the word ‘analysis’ itself, which etymologically means “to undo” — a virtual synonym for “to de-construct.” … If anything is destroyed in a deconstructive reading, it is not the text, but the claim to unequivocal domination of one mode of signifying over another. A deconstructive reading is a reading which analyzes the specificity of a text’s critical difference from itself.’
Barbara Johnson (1981)
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deconstruction)

Noise bricolage from suicidal genius that goes by the name POLYGRAPH compiled on feelings of old records, found sounds, whispers, etc. Polygraph is using couple of old tape recorders, microphones, record player, old synth…
Gregor Samsa woke up as a bug one day and had his breakfast. This is what went trough his head…
40 minutes of noise bricolage, uncut, pure, serious and with no stops.

Polygraph – Gregor’s Samsa Breakfast – listen or download

During MediaMediteranea’07 festival in Pula performance ‘Deconstruction of Construction’ was held in front of cultural center Karlo Rojc on Thursday 06/07/07. Peugot was cut in the half with help of the one person that came to participate in performance on our second call to general public. We also thank organizer Marino, his soldier Zeko (breaking the windshield in the movie), Pino (for hammering) and unknown bystander who joined us.
Deconstruction of Construction is performance with social awareness, created by Denis Miksic and Kruno Jost who are always on lookout for a new cars to cut. And to cut it with participation of as many people as possible.

Other car-cuting videos watch here >>

Traveling free radio is a collaborative program between media activists, social scientiests, FOSS developers, musicians and sound artists, freedom fighters and people who have only one rule: never to speak about fight club.

As a part of iCommnos Summit MMKamp has started yesterday in Art Workshop Lazareti, Dubrovnik.
MMK ‘07 is an international “artist residency” project based on collaboration between non-profit organizations, artists, tactical media activists and ones who don’t know yet what they are and dont care much.
MMKamp is an art and new media laboratory, platform for researching, new media experimenting and developing new artistic and communication forms, through self-initiated collaboration among international artists and new media workers.
Read more and listen to Free Traveling Radio pod-casts here >>

Student Center in Zagreb is opening an intenret radio soon. Radio will work as a platform for all the people who want to participate in creative process of making the free radio program.

From 25th of May to 01th of June workshops for interested technicians, editors and researchers are held in SC gallery.
Chek for the experimental streams every evening from 20 h. Program and workshops are helped by friendly network ‘Free Radio: Station M.I.R.’

All are invited to send their audio works on CDs on this adress:
STUDENTSKI CENTAR
Teatar &TD – ZA PILOT RADIO SC
n/r Silvija Stipanov
Savska 25
10 000 Zagreb
CROATIA

All types of audio works are invited, but preferred are radio shows in length of 30 minutes, jingles and sketches. See more at www.sczg.hr/radiosc

Tokom prve faza projekta Nepokoreni grad skenirani su neiskorišteni prostori u Dubrovniku. Locirao se prostor stare žičare koji bi se mogao koristiti za vrijeme residence programa u Art radionici Lazareti tokom rujna ’07 za performanse inozemsnih umjetnika.

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